Orange County

Orange County was formed in 1752 from Bladen, Granville and Johnston Counties. The county seat is Hillsboro. The Register of Deeds has birth and death records from 1913, marriage and land records from 1754, divorce records from 1869, probate records from 1756 and civil court records from 1865. The Courthouse burned in 1789.

Orange County, N.C. Newspapers

Chapel Hill, N.C. Newspapers

The Chapel Hill Gazette

Began in 1858

Earliest known issue: July 17, 1858

OCLC #23922737

Continues: Chapel Hill Literary Gazette

The Chapel Hill Herald

Beginning date: June 6, 1988

OCLC #27702593

The Chapel Hill Ledger

Beginning date: July 19, 1879

Ceased in 1880?

Last known issue: Sept. 11, 1880

OCLC #11388779

Continues: Weekly Ledger

Chapel Hill Literary Gazette

Beginning date: June 6, 1857

Ceased in 1858

Last known issue: June 26, 1858

OCLC #23922667

Continues: Chapel Hill Weekly Gazette

Continued by: Chapel Hill Gazette

The Chapel Hill News (1893)

Began in Oct. 1893

Earliest known issue: Oct. 19, 1893

OCLC #23936924

Continued by: News

Chapel Hill News (1992)

Beginning date: Sept. 30, 1992

OCLC #26889790

Continues: Chapel Hill Newspaper

Chapel Hill News Leader

Beginning date: May 20, 1954

Ending date: Dec. 29, 1959

OCLC #27762322

The Chapel Hill Newspaper

Beginning date: Sept. 5, 1972

Ending date: Sept. 27, 1992

OCLC #9747649

Continues: Chapel Hill Weekly

Continued by: Chapel Hill News (1992)

The Chapel Hill Weekly

Beginning date: March 1, 1923

Ending date: Sept. 3, 1972

OCLC #27098353

Continued by: Chapel Hill Newspaper

The Chapel Hill Weekly Gazette

Beginning date: April 18, 1857

Ending date: May 30, 1857

OCLC #23922793

Continued by: Chapel Hill Literary Gazette

The Chapel Hillian

Beginning date: Nov. 4, 1890

OCLC #23922305

Columbian Repository

Beginning date: June 18, 1836

OCLC #23923047

The Daily Tar Heel (1929)

Beginning date: June 7, 1929

OCLC #26123097

Continues: Tar Heel (1893)

Continued by: Tar Heel (1943)

The Daily Tar Heel (1946)

Beginning date: Feb. 5, 1946

OCLC #27164494

Continues: Tar Heel (1943)

The Harbinger

Beginning date: Aug. 27, 1833

Ceased in 1834

OCLC #23922965

The Independent

Began in 1894

Earliest known issue: Sept. 14, 1894

OCLC #23922602

Continues: Orange County Independent

The Leader (Research Triangle Park)

Beginning date: April 12, 1979

OCLC #4988776

Continues: North Carolina Leader

The NC Landmark Limited

Beginning date: June 10, 1982

OCLC #16856017

The Neighborhood Gazette

Beginning date: Dec. 21, 1962

Ending date: June 1, 1969

OCLC #27749495

The News

Earliest known issue: Nov. 4, 1898

OCLC #23936978

Continues: Chapel Hill News (1893)

Orange County Independent

Beginning date: June 29, 1894

Ceased in 1894

OCLC #23922325

Continued by: Independent

Press Institute News

Beginning date: Dec. 7, 1916

OCLC #27762294

The Protean Radish

Beginning date: March 3, 1969

OCLC #17736505

Continues: Radish

Radish

Beginning date: Dec. 9, 1968

Ending date: Feb. 24, 1969

OCLC #20838455

Continued by: Protean Radish

The Tar Heel (1893)

Beginning date: Feb. 23, 1893

Ending date: May 30, 1929

OCLC #18690337

Continued by: Daily Tar Heel (1929)

The Tar Heel (1943)

Beginning date: July 1, 1943

Ending date: Feb. 2, 1946

OCLC #27164501

Continues: Daily Tar Heel (1929)

Continued by: Daily Tar Heel (1946)

Town & Gown

Beginning date: Jan. 6, 1972

OCLC #27749485

The Weekly Ledger

Beginning date: April 18, 1878

Ending date: July 12, 1879

OCLC #11388735

Continued by: Chapel Hill Ledger

Hillsborough, N.C. Newspapers

The Alliance Weekly

Earliest known issue: Jan. 7, 1896

OCLC #24599955

Enterprise

Earliest known issue: Sept. 2, 1915

OCLC #24599934

The Golden Rule Watchman and Messenger

Earliest known issue: Feb. 9, 1909

OCLC #24599995

Hillsborough Plaindealer

Earliest known issue: Feb. 6, 1861

OCLC #24600005

The Hillsborough Recorder

Began in 1820

Earliest known issue: March 1, 1820

Ceased in 1879

Last known issue: March 5, 1879

OCLC #10454745

Continued by: Durham Recorder (Durham, NC)

Orange County Observer

Began in 1880

Earliest known issue: Oct. 23, 1880

Ceased in 1918?

Last known issue: May 11, 1916

OCLC # 11716080

Continues: Southern Mail

The Southern Mail

Beginning date: Jan. 5, 1880

Ceased in 1880

Last known issue: Jan. 5, 1880

OCLC #11716283

Continued by: Orange County Observer

Mebane, N.C. Newspapers

The Alamance-Orange Enterprise

Began in 1908

Earliest known issue: Sept. 11, 1985

Ending date: Feb. 13, 1991

OCLC #13118394

Continued by: Mebane Enterprise

Mebane Enterprise

Beginning date: Feb. 20, 1991

OCLC #24839575

Continues: Alamance-Orange Enterprise

The Mebane Enterprise and Hillsborough Journal (Mebane, NC)

Beginning date: Aug. 5, 1965

OCLC #33926128

Continues: Mebane Enterprise (1921)

The Mebane Enterprise (1921)

Began in 1921

Earliest known issue: May 18, 1922

Ending date: July 29, 1965

OCLC #33926114

Continued by: Mebane Enterprise and Hillsborough Journal

The Mebane Leader

Earliest known issue: Jan. 5, 1911

OCLC #24839144

General Grantors Index to Deeds

The following deed index abstracts were read by John Hughes in August 1995 from microfilm stored at the LDS Church Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. The film number is 0305918.

Grantor Grantee Date Instrm't Book Page

• Rouland Hughes Robt. Baldredge 20 DEC 1779 D 2 100
• Richard Hughes John Davie 20 SEP 1790 D 4 367
• John Hughs Elisha Driskell DEC 1796 D 5 770
• Joseph Hughes Richard Bartlett et al 18 AUG 1814 D 15 1
• John Hughes Thomas Hughes 5 JUL 1823 D 21 85
• John Hughes Thomas Hughes tr 12 MAR 1831 D 24 272
• John Hughes, Sr. Andrew Hughes 24 FEB 1820 D 25 188
• John Hughes, Sr. Michael Strader 27 JUL 1826 D 25 189
• John Hughes, Sr. Samuel Hughes 1 FEB 1833 D 25 299
• Thomas Hughes James Dayley 10 OCT 1833 D 26 469
• Andrew, Elizabeth
• John, Thomas Hughes John Tickle, Sr. 23 APR 1836 D 28 320
• Andrew Hughes Est. John W. Wilson 17 SEP 183. D 28 326
• Andrew Hughes Est. Abner Tate 19 JAN 1839 D 28 371
• Andrew Hughes J. S. Brackin 28 AUG 1839 D 28 431
• J. D. Hughes Tr Ira Ellis 31 APR 1835 QCD 29 535
• Samuel W. Hughes William A. Lee 21 NOV 1859 D 36 418

North Carolina - Orange County 1752-1952

• J. Knox Hughes, Representative - General Assemble 1876 20th District
• John Knox Hughes, Orange County Sheriff 6 December 1880 to 5 September 1904
• Thomas H. Hughes, Orange County Sheriff 5 September 1870 to 6 December 1880
• Thomas H. Hughes, Senator - General Assembly 1893 18th District
• John P. Hughes, Orange County Commissioner 1912-1916

Pictured:

A Hughes was found pictured in the Eno Cotton Mill Baseball Team about 1904.

Obituaries

Joseph D. Hughes

The Harold Recorder, June 14, 1844

Died, in this county, on the 28th ultimo, Joseph D. Hughes, esq., aged about 60 years. He had been a consistent member of the Presbyterian church for about forty years, and an Elder about twenty. He died as he had lived, trusting in his savior.

Estate Records

Abstracts from Papers Stored at the North Carolina State Archives

Andrew Hughes - 1831

Leaves his slaves to his heirs.

Widow: Lucinda

Children: Eliza(beth Anne), Bluford Reed (husband of Cornelia Anne), James H(enry), Martha (Anne), Andrew Jackson, Adaline

Died intestate.

Samuel W. Hughes - 1884

• Heirs: Wife: M(argaret) J.
• Minor Children: Robert H.; Agnes Johnson; Annie L.; Eliza J.; Albert W.; Lizzie J. Scott; Netta B.; Claud M.; Samuel F.; Augustus C.; Henrietta V.

Thomas H. Hughes - 1893 (Thomas Henry (or Harvey) born 1813. Son of Joesph D. Hughes who died 1844)

Children: Eliza M. Wilkinson; Mary E. Morris; John Knox Hughes.

Joseph D. Hughes - c.1845

A.G. & S.W. Hughes, executors. Articles to Thomas H., William P., Jane, Elizabeth.

Bible Record of Henry Hughes & Mary

Births of the children of Henry Hughes & Mary.

• M John Thomas 27 SEP 1839
• M James Henry 15 MAY 1841
• F Charolotte 18 SEP 1842
• M Miles 24 FEB 1844
• F Sally Frances 17 NOV 1845
• F Christian 22 SEP 1847
• M Augustus 18 DEC 1849
• F Elizabeth 17 JUN 1852
• F Nancy 31 MAR 1855

U. S. Census Population Schedule 1840 Orange County

Paskal, John page 184 Northern Twsp

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